Josue Hurtado

I knew they’d come for the archivists and librarians but honestly I assumed it would be for a reason better than “Our Special Boy wants to give his friend a sword! Give him a sword!”

An old military maxim often attributed to Napoleon is “an army marches on its stomach” and I feel the same way that a university thinks via its library. The slow and steady financial diminution of research libraries and the librarians who staff them is, to me, a slow-rolling higher Ed catastrophe.

The Minotaur was his nickname on the Dodgerthoughts blog when he was in the minors and he seemed like the real deal. He was so good, but young pitcher development is so random and no one wanted to jinx it, so he was called The Minotaur; a mythical beast.

Monty Python responses to the troops patrolling our streets are the best responses to the troops patrolling our streets

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.

🔗 library.saintheron.com

The University of the Arts’ archive will now live on at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania The collection, which might hold almost a million items, could've ended in a dumpster. But now, it will be HSP's largest and will cost an estimated $500,000 to catalog, conserve, and digitize.

The University of the Arts’ archive will now live on at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 📜
www.inquirer.com/arts/univers...

I’m hoping Treinen gets raptured

Please tell me that Treinen got raptured

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

The Minotaur

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books It’s a trippy time to have a library card.

Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI.

🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...

'Let There Be GWAR' exhibit celebrates 40 years of metal's bloodiest band “Let There Be GWAR” showcases the Grammy-nominated band’s elaborate sci-fi artistry, through its numerous costumes, props, comics, live performances at clubs and pivotal moments on television.

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'Really slimy': Texas A&M 'quietly' removes hundreds of LGBTQ+ books "It just felt really slimy on the university's part."

In 2022 Texas A&M reorganized their libraries (over faculty protests) and pulled all librarians out of faculty status.

It's a deal if we can stop getting hot takes about Larry Krasner

Catholic bishops call immigration crackdown a 'category 4 storm' WASHINGTON (RNS) — Before the Georgetown roundtable, El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz told RNS he is questioning whether Catholics can, in good conscience, join ICE.

A significant thing here: El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committee on migration, tells @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social he is questioning whether Catholics can, in good conscience, join ICE. religionnews.com/2025/09/12/c...

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Commentary: I'm a U.S. citizen. I'm always going to carry my passport now. Thanks, Supreme Court My dad’s passport is among his most valuable possessions, a document that not only establishes that he’s a U.S. citizen but holds the story of his life.

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On Shutdowns, Get the Wording Right and Other Thoughts I was very pleased to see that Ezra Klein has joined the...

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"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." LOL

Duke cut librarians. It never told the faculty they worked with Thirty-three of the more than 200 full time library staff members accepted voluntary severance packages, prompting their departure from Duke. Their absences leave the future of a key aspect of academi...

Duke cut librarians. It never told the faculty they worked with 📚
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This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org

Vicksburg Campaign in the West was Grants’s masterpiece, and he followed that up by relieving the trapped Union forces at Chattanooga setting up Sherman’s March to the Sea.